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About Us

'Ad Hena' is a learning and research institute dedicated to the study of the Torah creations of Galician and Bukovinian Jewry, from the 16th century to the present day.

The centre seeks to create a broad academic foundation which will bring together Torah expertise, scholarship, modern research methods and historical thinking. It aims to achieve this by integrating budding Haredi researchers into scientific research endeavours. 

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Events

/ החשיבה הלמדנית בספר 'מנחת חינוך' ובני דורו
לרגל צאת ספרה של הרבנית ד"ר מיכל טיקוצ'ינסקי
/ הסטוריה של האטלס ההסטורי העברי

 לקראת עבודה על אטלס ליהדות גליציה. ד"ר נתן שיפריס מהעמותה לחקר גליציה…

/ נושאי הכלים- חוק, פרשנות והיסטוריה בעת החדשה: מפגש חמישי

מפגש שני בסדרה על נושאי הכלים. נושאי הכלים על ‘חושן משפט’ בעידן ביטול…

/ יום העצמאות על טהרת הקודש: עליית החסידים לארץ הקודש וסיפורי חסידים ארצישראלים
ישיבת תקוע מארחת את פרופ' מעוז כהנא והרב אברהם אביש שור, עמית מחקר במכון עד הנה…
/ “Dining in Bnei Brak” – A Series of Zoom Meetings with Ad Hena Colleagues
Hertzog College and the “Ad Hena” Center are honored to invite you to a series…
/ נושאי הכלים- חוק, פרשנות והיסטוריה בעת החדשה: מפגש רביעי

מפגש רביעי בסדרה על נושאי הכלים. המפגש יעסוק בניתוח פסיקתם של נושאי הכלים…

/ נושאי הכלים- חוק, פרשנות והיסטוריה בעת החדשה: מפגש רביעי

מפגש רביעי בסדרה על נושאי הכלים. המפגש יעסוק בניתוח פסיקתם של נושאי הכלים…

/ The Jews of the Shulchan Aruch: R’ Binyamin, Hapsburg Multinationalism and the Cultural Experience of Jews in Galicia in the Late 19th Century
A lecture by Dr. Avi-ram Tzoref, Ben-Gurion University
/ The Nosei Keilim — Law, Interpretation, and History in the Modern Period: Session 2
The second session in a series on the Nosei Keilim. The session will cover the…
/ The Nosei Keilim — Law, Interpretation, and History in the Modern Period: Session 1
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/ The Old Jewish Cemetery of Busk — New Discoveries
The lecture of Dr. Ilia Lurie
/ Galicia in Jerusalem — An Educational Tour

Members of the center took a tour in Jerusalem in search of Galician…

/ The Fork — A Jewish History

A lecture by Rabbi Ariel Holland as part of the “History of
Objects”…

/ The Clock — A History of the Object from a Jewish Perspective
A lecture by Dr. Maoz Cahana as part of the “History of Objects” series.
/ Ad Hena Center Seminar in Partnership with the Tekoa Hesder Yeshiva
The Tekoa Yeshiva and the Ad Hena Center study tradition, learning, and Jewish…
/ Representation of the Eastern European Fair in Israeli Culture
A lecture by Dr. Tehila Darmon-Malca
/ The Scholarship of Ketzos HaChoshen
A lecture by Dr Noam Sammet
/ "They Shall Follow the Fathers, Not the Rabbis": Non-Halakhic Halakha in the Writing of Rabbi Moshe Sofer
A lecture by Dr Maoz Kahana
/ The Scholarship of Rabbi Joseph Karo
A lecture by Dr TIrza Kelman (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
/ The Scholarship of Or Zarua
A lecture by Dr Uzi Fux
/ Rabbinic Scholarship in Galicia: Between the Noda BeYehuda and the Hatam Sofer
A lecture by Rabbi Ariel Holland
/ The Ashkenazi Prayer Book in the 21st Century
A round table with contemporary editors of prayer books
/ Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi's Prayer Book
Rabbi Baruch Oberlander (Budapest)
/ Grammarians of the Ashkenazi Prayer Book
Prof. Haim Cohen (Tel Aviv University)
/ Prayer Book and Kabalah in the Early Modern Period
By Yisrael Malkiel (Tel Aviv University)
/ East European Prayer Books: Shabtai Sofer of Przemysl and his Contemporaries
Prof. Stefan Reif (University of Cambridge)
/ The History of the Early Ashkenazi Prayer Book
Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Harritan
/ The Ashkenazi Prayer Book - Formation, Development and Methods of Research
a six meetings series on various aspects of the history and research of prayer…
/ Methods in Historiography: Micro-history 2
Second meeting out of two
/ Methods in Historiography: Micro-history 1
First meeting out of two
/ New Research Group
The group, consisting four senior graduates of Ad Hena's research programme,…
/ Biographies of Halacha Scholars - Genre and Methodology
Lecture by Dr Maoz Kahana
/ New Group of Research Fellows
Ad Hena is delighted to announce the end of recruitment for a new group of…
/ Congratulations to the graduates of Ad Hena's first fellowship programme
Ad Hena congratulates the graduates of the first fellowship programme.
/ The Library - a Conference with Herzog College Library's Staff
Speakers: Rabbi Moshe Rabinowitz Mrs Tzipi Keller Rabbi Refael Kroizer
/ R Shmuel Koidinover, Author of Nahalat Shiva, and the Polemic Around the Nosei Kelim Literature
An event to mark the 342th anniversary of his death
/ Elazar Landa, the Somewhat Forgotten Rabbi of Brody
A panel to mark the 187th anniversary of his death
/ A Call for New Fellows at Ad Hena Institute
Call for new fellows (2018-2019)
/ Ad Hena's Fellow Lectures at Mandel Institute's Conference
Printing the Aggudah as a reaction to the printing of the Shulkhan A'rukh
/ Seminar for the Participants of the Course 'Galicia Youth', Year 2
Ad Hena's fellows and staff hosted the group for a one day seminar
/ Tour for Ad Hena's Fellows in the Historical Gush Etzion
The fellows visited the Lone Oak, Way of the Patriarchs, and the Gush Etzion…
/ Seminar for the Participants of the Course 'Karlin Youth', Year 2
20 young Karlin hassidim were hosted at Ad Hana, for a one day seminar
/ Rabbi Wolf Ber Shiff of Zamość, Author of "Minkhat Zikaron"
A presentation by Ad Hena's fellow Yitchak Baruch Rosenblum
/ R Arie Judah Leib Tumim and the Brody Rabbinate
Presented by Ad Hana's Fellow R Benayahu Cohen
/ Egyptian and Syrian Jewish Communities at the Turn of the 16th Century
Two short guest-lectures
/ Visiting Fellows' Presentations
Two of Ad Hena's Visiting Fellows presented their research projects
/ New Methodological Perspective in Historical Research: Salo W. Baron and the Emancipation
Dr Uriel Gelmna (Bar Ilan University), a visiting scholar at Ad Hena Institute…
/ Use of Chronicles and Historic Literture in 19th Century Galicia
A lecture by Dr Haim Gertner, Director of the Yad Vashem Archives Division
/ Iberian Jews' Influence on the Diaspora Between 1391 and 1600
A lecture and discussion with Prof. Nachem Ilan, Ono Academic College
/ The Achronim Period
A Lecture by Rabbi Moshe Lichtenstein, Head of Yeshivat Har Etzion
/ Farewell to Ad Hena's Second Year Fellows

Congratulations to our second year colleages on the occasion of the …

/ Workshop with our Second Year Fellows
Our five fellows presented their research projects, and received feedbacks
/ Solomon Judha Loeb Rapaprot, as Reflected in His Rabbinic Writing
Workshop at the Zalman Shazar Centre
/ Lectures of the "Ad Hena" Center fellows at the 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies
Four fellows of the Center lectured at the Congress on their research
/ "From Kraków to Lemberg" Project - a Lecture at the 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies
The lecture: "The Genre of Name Lists for Divorce Records: Its Creation and…
/ Two of our fellows took part in the 'Galician Jewry' international conference

Two of our colleagues - rabbi Abish Schor and rabbi Zvi Lehrer took part in…

/ Presentation and Discussion before the Conference in Rzeszow, Poland

Zvi Lehrer presented his research before the forum.

/ Presentation and Discussion before the Conference in Rzeszow, Poland
Abish Shor presented his research before the forum.
/ Charity in Early Christianity
Prof. Gari Anderson (University of Notre Dame)
/ Seminar for the Participants of the Course 'Karlin Youth'
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/ Hasidism or not? Breslev and its Texts
Dr Zvi Mark (Bar Ilan University)
/ Seminar for the Participants of the Course 'Galicia Youth'
/ From Regensburg to Krakow: Rabbi Michel Moravchik and the Legacy of Hasidei Ashkenaz
Our Fellow Moshe David Chechik lectured at the 'SeferHasidim - in Context'…
/ Sefer HaBerit and Sefer Nofet Zufim – Apologetics or Internal Writing?
Lecture and Discussion with Prof. David Ruderman
/ A Tour of the National Library of Israel to 'Ad Hena's Fellows
/ Remmemrence and History in S.Y. Agnon’s Writing
Rabbi Dr. Gefry Sacks
/ Early Stages of Ashkenazi Settlement in Poland
Prof. Shaul Stampfer (Hebrew University)
/ Memory vs History: the Case of the Holocaust
Eyal Mizrahi (Yad VaShem)
/ TIBEREAN HASIDISM: LETTERS OF LOVE

Rabbi Avish Shor  represented the 'Ad Hena' Institute at the 2016 Jewish…

/ East European Prayer Books: Shabtai Sofer of Przemysl and his Contemporaries
Prof. Stefan Reif (University of Cambridge)
/ Yiddish Literature as Popular Literature in the 16th-17th Centuries
Prof. Chava Turniansky (Hebrew University)
/ The Formation of Halakhic-Polish Identity in the Early Modern Period
Prof. Elchana Reiner (National Library of Israel)
/ The Literary Republic and Book Genres: Early Jewish Print in Eastern Europe
Prof. Zeev Gris (Ben Gurion University)
/ Jewish History of Poland, 16th-17th Centuries
Prof. Ted Fram (Ben Gurion University)
/ General History of Poland, 16th-17th Centuries
Prof. Ted Fram (Ben Gurion University)
/ Reception History, in the "Shoel U'Meshiv" Book of Responsa
Rabbi Ariel Holland
/ Reception History
Dr. Maoz Kahana (Tel Aviv University)
/ 'Galicia in the Holy Land", part 1

Rabbi Dr Yehudah Brandes (Herzog Academic College)

/ The Austrian Regime’s Requirement from the Rabbis Regarding their General Education
Prof. Rachel Menkin (University of Maryland)
/ Local History Emerging - Meron, the Holy Site
Dr Netanel Lederberg
/ Sources for the Research of Galician Jewry
Dr Natan Shifris (The Galicia and Bukovina Project, Haifa University)
/ Solomon Judah Loeb Rapaport, Galician Haskalah, Scholarship and Nationality
Dr Natan Shifris (The Galicia and Bukovina Project, Haifa University)
/ My Heart is in the East, and I in the Uttermost West: the Imagining Technique and the West
Dr. Daniel Reiser
/ The Rabbinic Literature in Galicia and Bukovina - an Overview

Rabbi Meir Wunder (National Library of Israel)

/ Polish Nobility and the Jews

Dr. Yehudit…

/ The Literary Shift of the 16th-17th Centuries
Prof. Elchanan Reiner, The National Library
/ "שישמעו לאבות ולא לרבנים' - למדנות בספר 'חתם סופר'
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Articles and Essays

התמודדות פוסקי ההלכה בגליציה במאה התשע עשרה עם מציאות משתנה
By: שמחה פלדמן ואליה יפה
עמדתו של ר' שלמה קלוגר בהיתר שטר מכירה בשבת כמקרה מבחן
מורה נבוכים: בין משכילי ולמדני גליציה
By: יצחק ברוך רוזנבלום
דעת: כתב עת לפילוסופיה יהודית וקבלה, 85 (2018)
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Courses and Training Seminars

שולחן ערוך מנטובה
“Galician Youth” Course, Year 2, 2018
We're delighted to welocm the second group for our annual course about the history of Jewish thought in Galicia
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בית כנסת חסידי
Course for Karlin Youth: Hassidic Historical Research - Year 2
As a result of the big success of last year's course, a new group has started the program, led by rabbi Avish Shor.
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Busk

Preparing to the Expedition to Busk and Kalush

Busk and Kalush are typical Eastern Galician cities. Once they were known as prominent trade and industrial centers with significant Jewish population, which contributed a lot to their urban development. Now, the only testimony of past vibrant Jewish life there are the Jewish cemeteries, where the Expedition will work this year.
Buczacz

Expedition to Buczacz, 2018

The organization’s annual documentation delegation completed documentation of the Jewish cemetery in Buczacz this year. It could be said that the central theme of this year’s field work was the legacy of S.Y Agnon. Members of his family, as well as many of his friends, acquaintances, and heroes of his works, are buried in the cemetery.
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Krakov & Lemberg

From Kraków to Lemberg

לוגו אוניברסיטת תל אביב

Four Hundred Years of Rabbinic Creativity in Galicia and Bukovina of the Early Modern Period

The project will involve gathering and cataloguing the various documentations (books, manuscripts, and surviving community notebooks); classifying the material into folk works and “higher” creative output; researching different versions of prayers and their developments over the years; surveying and summarizing the history of the publication of these works, and analyzing the measure of their acceptance in various provinces, along a chronological axis.

 

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